<a href="http://delacruzcollection.org/restaurant_blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/timthumb.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-493" title="timthumb" src="http://delacruzcollection.org/restaurant_blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/timthumb-300x185.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="185" /></a><strong>3252 NE 1st Street
305-424-9079</strong>
<strong><a href="http://www.sustainmiami.com/" target="_blank">www.sustainmiami.com/</a></strong>

Opening is what is fast becoming restaurant row in Midtown, is a gorgeous, inventive newcomer with a mission.  Chef Alejandro Pinero, an alumnus of Casa Tua and Fratelli Lyon, promises sourcing of food locally and regionally from small producers.  His farm to table approach offers a charcuterie board with pork rillette, country pate and smoked country ham, for starters.  Homemade wood-oven roasted Italian sausage on a bed of crusty bread laden with slivers of peppers is a hearty lively starter. Dishes change seasonally and a sweet white corn soup has already replaced the  curried  kabocha squash soup. The "50 mile salad" gets its name from being sourced within 50 miles of Midtown with only peak season greens being included.

The barbequed quail is a stunner, as plump and moist as you'll find anywhere. The wood oven roasted half chicken is glazed with a maple-vinegar sauce which highlights the distinctive real flavor of this hormone, antibiotic free bird. All of the food comes out piping hot which is almost a lost art in most restaurants. In a crazily porky city, the pasture raised Berkshire pork chop with mustard glaze is fast becoming a signature dish.

The interior design is sophisticated and original, designed with a concern for the environment.  All the blond wood of the bar, tables and chairs has been recycled, while Guatemalan mangrove trees, positioned upside down to reveal the roots reaching for the ceiling handsomely invade the space  Why Guatemalan mangroves?  Only there do they replant another tree for each one removed.

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